Education: Cold Shoulder

Two years ago, Soviet Poet Robert Rozhdestvensky, 32, was the idol of
rebellious Communist youth. Sharing a platform with Evgeny Evtushenko
and other young poets, Rozhdestvensky declaimed against the cult of
Stalinism.

How could we

An atheist people

Be servants of a cult?

he cried, and the people cheered.

But Khrushchev said tut-tut to all that, and Rozhdestvensky rather
readily switched his blank-verse sermonizing from anti-Stalinism to
anti-Americanism. Imagining himself a U.S. Indian in wild West days, he
asked: